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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make his team, many a law-breaking student has conformed to social custom in order to make good on the field, many an injurious habit has been given up for the Spartan regimen of the training table. Moral qualities of leadership and teamwork, the tough muscle and the steady eve are the reward of American athletes. And as in the case of the fraternity, the faculty which ignored the existence of this great institution has come to realize that unless it makes of athletics its friend and aid in the scheme of American education, athletics like the fraternity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President MacCracken of Vassar Sees Much Good in Student Move | 6/4/1926 | See Source »

...sale of tickets which has been satisfactory in the last two weeks assures the affair of being a financial success. The number of stags has increased appreciably, the number on the eve of the dance having reached...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE LANTERNS TO FLICKER ON REVELERS | 5/28/1926 | See Source »

Proud of his pet, Worker Moe despatched it to his grandmother, Fru Sigurd Bugg-Moe at Bergen, Norway. Fru Bugg-Moe was bitten by the squirrel while attempting to make it perform on Christmas Eve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...which the CRIMSON published at the opening of the college year last September was greeted in the editorial columns of the press with startled comment. The very idea that an undergraduate publication should admit the curriculum to its news columns, and particularly that it should admit it on the eve of the football season, appeared to commentators a most astounding, if not preposterous, departure from established policy. Ostensibly the established policy of an undergraduate publication was support of or at least interest in everything except the essential work for which men came to college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONCENTRATION | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...eve of the show last week a hanger-man plumped the picture in front of Mr. Saint-Gaudens, pointed. Between the cheese and wine was a ragged two-inch hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Forain Vexed | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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